"A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it."
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"The Tao's principle is spontaneity."
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"If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser."
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"Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion ."
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"The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem."
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"I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices."
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"Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention."
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"We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness."
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"Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob."
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"I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension."
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"Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to."
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"The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself."
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"Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face."
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"Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility."
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"In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms."
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"Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee."
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"The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible."
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"But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests."
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"Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom."
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"That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way."
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